Most And Least Mormon States In America (PHOTOS)

Click through the slideshow to see most and least Mormon states in the United States:

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• Utah

  69,124 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Salt_Lake_LDS_Temple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Idaho

  26,108 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Idaho_Falls_Temple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Wyoming

  11,143 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

• Nevada

  6,486 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Las_Vegas_Temple_1.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Arizona

  6,147 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Mesa_Temple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Hawaii

  5,137 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/LDS_Laie_Hawaii_Temple_front_view.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Montana

  4,698 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/MTempleafar.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Alaska

  4,530 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Anchorage_Alaska_Temple_by_artchase.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Washington

  3,975 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Columbia_river_temple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Oregon

  3,862 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_Oregon_Temple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• New Mexico

  3,285 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albuquerque_New_Mexico_Temple_by_a4gpa.jpeg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Colorado

  2,833 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Denver_LDSTemple.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• California

  2,050 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fresno_Temple_rear.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Nebraska

  1,281 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_Quarters_Temple.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• South Dakota

  1,205 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• Kansas

  1,198 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• Texas

  1,178 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dallas_LDS_Temple_by_David_B.jpeg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Oklahoma

  1,147 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oklahoma_city_lds_mormon_temple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Virginia

  1,122 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• Missouri

  1,103 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St._Louis_Missouri_Temple_by_Ella_Minnow_Peas,_left_frame_only.jpeg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• North Dakota

  1,030 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BismarkTemple7.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Arkansas

  945 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Petit_Jean_State_Park_view.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• West Virginia

  902 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• South Carolina

  808 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columbia_South_Carolina.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Iowa

  808 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• North Carolina

  805 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RaleighTemple.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Maine

  804 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_beach_in_maine_on_a_clear_day.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Georgia

  801 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlanta_Georgia_Temple_04.07.07.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Maryland

  738 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_D.C._Temple_At_Dusk.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Kentucky

  737 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Louisville_Kentucky_Temple_by_Foto71.jpeg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Florida

  728 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orlando_Florida_Temple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Tennessee

  720 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Memphis_Tennessee_Temple_01.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Alabama

  719 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birmingham_Alabama_Temple_by_nateOne,_cropped.jpeg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Mississippi

  715 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• Vermont

  701 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burlington,_Vermont.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Indiana

  637 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• Louisiana

  630 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Louisiana_State_Capital_at_night.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• New Hampshire

  625 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_hampshire_in_autumn_.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Minnesota

  577 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St._Paul_Minnesota_Temple_in_March_2008.jpeg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Delaware

  538 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• Ohio

  508 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columbus_Ohio_Temple_(cropped).png" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Illinois

  435 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Illinois_Temple3.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Wisconsin

  431 Mormons per 100,000 people.

• Michigan

  428 Mormons per 100,000 people. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Detroit_Michigan_Temple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Connecticut

  419 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Nhskyline_eastshore.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• New York

  403 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ManhattanTemple.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Pennsylvania

  392 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• Massachusetts

  381 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bostontemple.JPG" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• Rhode Island

  364 Mormons per 100,000 persons. <br> Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/N3419822_37931820_6163Providence.jpg" target="_hplink">here</a>.

• New Jersey

  360 Mormons per 100,000 persons.

• District of Columbia

  70 Mormons per 100,000 people.

A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, “2010 U.S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study (RCMS)” was recently released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county-by-county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups. (The survey differentiates between specific denominations within the same tradition.)

The researchers found Utah to be the most Mormon state with close to 70 percent identifying as Mormon adherents. Nearly one in three Mormons are in the state of Utah. The researchers found the District of Columbia (just the district) to be the least Mormon state with only about 0.07 percent identifying as Mormon adherents.

The researchers define adherents to be those with an affiliation to a congregation including children, members and attendees who are not members, and believe that the adherent measure is the most complete and comparable across religious groups. Congregations are defined as groups of people who meet regularly at a pre-announced time and location.

More than 6.1 million Mormon adherents and 13,601 congregations were reported in 1,873 counties. The largest concentration of Mormons in the United States is in the mountain region of the West where more than 5 percent of the population identified as a Mormon. The smallest concentration of Mormons were found in the Northeast and pockets in the South.

Similarly, the most dense concentration of Mormon congregations is found in the Western region of the country. In stark contrast, the Midwest, most of the South and Northeast reported very few to almost zero congregations.

As the map below shows, compared to the year 2000, most of the West reported minor change in percentage of Mormon adherents. Many regions in the South and Midwest reported major gains in Mormon population in some counties, and major losses in others.

Bibliography:
Grammich, Clifford, Kirk Hadaway, Richard Houseal, Dale E. Jones, Alexei Krindatch, Richie Stanley, and Richard H. Taylor, 2012. 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study. Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.

Click through to see a list of most and least religious states in the United States as reported by Gallup:

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• #1: Mississippi (59 percent)

• #2 Utah (57 percent)

• #3 Alabama (56 percent)

• #4 Louisiana (54 percent)

• #5 Arkansas (54 percent)

• #6 South Carolina (54 percent)

• #7 Tennessee (52 percent)

• #8 North Carolina (50 percent)

• #9 Georgia (48 percent)

• #10 Oklahoma (48 percent)

• #51 Vermont (23 percent)

• #50 New Hampshire (23 percent)

• #49 Maine (25 percent)

• #48 Massachusetts (28 percent)

• #47 Alaska (28 percent)

• #46 Oregon (30 percent)

• #45 Nevada (30 percent)

• #44 Washington (30 percent)

• #43 Connecticut (31 percent)

• #42 District of Columbia (32 percent)

• #42 New York (32 percent)

• #42 Rhode Island (32 percent)

Comments

[Dianne Czaja Keesler]

01:34 AM on 12/14/2012

Well let's now discuss the Catholic religion. Popes and priests that committed adultery, had illegitimate children, stole from the poor by charging them for "special dispensations" otherwise charging for poor people to supposedly get into heaven. Priests that are homosexuals, pedophiles and thiefs. How about the Vatican laundering money for the Cosa Nostra in Italy? What about the Pope and Vatican not doing enough to help the Jews during the Holocaust? How the Catholic church supresses Women? How about the wonderful religious men who did the slaughter of other religious people during the "Crusades" and people keep bringing up the Meadow Mountain massacre? How many thousands or millions have the Roman Catholics murdered for "GOD"? How about the scapular worn under Catholic's clothes and the funny looking hats and robes the priests, bishops, cardinals and the Pope wears. How about people kissing their rings? How about the scaring of children by telling them God will punish them with fire and brimstone. What the heck is Limbo and Purgatory? What about babies who aren't baptized can't go to Heaven? An innocent baby who comes into the world a sinner already and is in Limbo? What about these weird religious things?

[Norcal2]

07:49 AM on 12/14/2012

The difference between LDS and Catholicism is di minimus ......one is a large and cultish and the other is smaller and a cult.

[buffaloon]

11:22 PM on 10/08/2012

Whoo-Hoo! NY is 46 out of 50. We may have started that cult but we were smart enough not to keep them.

[Dianne Czaja Keesler]

02:31 AM on 12/14/2012

There are more in NY than you know. You are surrounded by them and can't even tell because they are as normal as you are.

[Debra Martinez]

02:59 PM on 10/08/2012

There is only one True God . I really feel sad for billions of you..that are not coming together to One God..

[Boomerwoman]

09:11 PM on 09/14/2012

Mormons are the new Stepford.

[Dianne Czaja Keesler]

02:32 AM on 12/14/2012

And Jonah was swallowed by a whale and survived.

[season555]

07:14 PM on 09/14/2012

Don't know much about the religion, except can't understand why Bishop Romney would be so Earth bound? So much into wealth, making it , spending it, talking about how we are jealous of him.

Aren't men of God suppose to be more interested in the day they get to meet their Lord? Also what kind of Bishop cheats people ( Bain) and lies constantly ( flip flopper). Are all Mormon Bishops trained to be like this or is King Romney special.

[Boomerwoman]

09:12 PM on 09/14/2012

This is a religion built on lies and fakery (more than the others) and to belong, you have to suspend belief and buy into a mass delusion. Seriously: I've lived in Mormon Country for 65 years and they are a cult.

[season555]

01:20 AM on 09/15/2012

And we are all being made into fools....

[Dianne Czaja Keesler]

02:52 AM on 12/14/2012

He works for a living just like everyone else. It's his religion not his job. How wealthy is the Catholic church? They own more property than any other religion in the world. They ask for money TWICE from everyone in church every Sunday.

[Dark Reaver]

07:56 PM on 05/31/2012

Looks like we've really ran that comment set down to single word lines, Kiwi.
How about we end the back and forth on this article so we can both move on to others. I'll ask one question of you and you can have the last word.
Do you believe all people regardless of religion or lack there of deserve equal rights under law?

[Kiwi57]

12:16 AM on 06/05/2012

Ah. Leading questions. What fun.

Yes.

[dancingbones]

07:41 PM on 05/30/2012

Mormon isn't really a religion; it's a social/political militia.

[Kiwi57]

12:16 AM on 06/05/2012

I'm sorry, but that's entirely untrue.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in no sense a militia. Its political interests are strictly limited and of a special character. It does not involve itself in party politics or in promoting or opposing candidates.

On the other hand, it is, without question, a church, and what it teaches is absolutely a religion.

[maggieram21]

03:53 PM on 07/12/2012

check and see how much the mormon church has donated to the romney camp, they do get involved.

[el sistema]

10:08 AM on 09/14/2012

The LDS funded $20million to promote prop 8 in California. How is this not a political sociological interest?

[BlueCollarChick]

04:04 PM on 05/29/2012

I just wish that religious people would stop trying to make laws that curtail the freedoms of others that don't believe as they do. Personally, I don't care what invisible force you choose to worship, it's your business and your right. My only request is that you apply your interpretation of your god's laws to yourself, no one else.

[BlueCollarChick]

03:53 PM on 05/29/2012

Where can I find a magic seer stone and start my own pseudo reigion?

[arcanumseeker]

12:12 AM on 05/30/2012

Go dig one up like Joseph did!

[el sistema]

10:09 AM on 09/14/2012

Or lie and and change your story multiple times.

[Dark Reaver]

01:57 PM on 05/29/2012

Ya know, I get a kick out of reading Kiwi57's posts. For someone living half way around the world from my little state of Utah, he's quite an expert on the subject. Though there are a few things I've never seen him post about....

Who controls the FLDS Trust fund and what is happening with it.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705367416/Judge-rules-states-control-of-FLDS-trust-unconstitutional-and-an-illegal-takeover-by-Utah.html?pg=1

Utah refusing to charge Warren Jeffs(Thank Texas for doing the right thing)
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705394003/Utah-charges-dismissed-against-Warren-Jeffs.html

And how much he knows about polygamy in Utah.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53442461-78/utah-county-waddoups-state.html.csp
Which as you can read in that article, is NOT considered illegal in Utah according to the UAG.

Odd.

[Kiwi57]

08:51 PM on 05/29/2012

@Dark Reaver:
"Ya know, I get a kick out of reading Kiwi57's posts. For someone living half way around the world from my little state of Utah, he's quite an expert on the subject. Though there are a few things I've never seen him post about...."

And this is important -- why, exactly?

@Dark Reaver:
"Who controls the FLDS Trust fund and what is happening with it."

I don't know. I don't care. Not my concern.

@Dark Reaver:
"Utah refusing to charge Warren Jeffs(Thank Texas for doing the right thing)"

I'm not especially interested in this question either. I'm not a lawyer. I will point out that any attempt to insinuate that "the Mormons" were protecting him is utterly risible.

@Dark Reaver:
"And how much he knows about polygamy in Utah.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53442461-78/utah-county-waddoups-state.html.csp
Which as you can read in that article, is NOT considered illegal in Utah according to the UAG."

You are clearly misrepresenting what the article says.

"Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has a stated policy that he won’t prosecute consenting adult polygamists as long as they aren’t committing other crimes."

Note that "will not prosecute" doesn't mean "is NOT considered illegal." It just means "will not prosecute." There are lots of crimes that are not prosecuted; sodomy, for example. Note also that if "other crimes" means anything, it means that polygamy is a crime too.

[Dark Reaver]

09:32 PM on 05/29/2012

No, you wouldn't care or have interest because as you(an LDS member) states that FLDS members are not Mormon. Even though FLDS members claim they are. You don't find any hypocrisy claiming LDS members are Christian when a Christian claims you aren't? Life if a two way street. Like I said, your half way around the world. And don't see any truth other then what it posted on a LDS website.
Yes, your right it's on the books as a crime. Yet only in Utah is it not prosecuted. Which has nothing to do with a 85% plus Mormon Utah Congress, correct? Don't know why I ask though, you don't live here, you don't know what goes on here.
I'm out, continue as you wish.

[Dark Reaver]

09:37 PM on 05/29/2012

Oh, and Mark Shurtleff is a member of your church. But there wouldn't be a connection there either, I guess.

[Willow712]

11:06 PM on 05/28/2012

Notice in NW Iowa, there are four counties with no LDS members? That is because those counties are completely filled with Dutch Reformed of about three denominations. They don't even allow a Lutheran Church in town, they have to build about three miles from town. I could not see any LDS members even thinking about this part of the state. lol.

[rich3324]

10:37 PM on 05/28/2012

Mormonism the Scientology of the 18th century.

[Kiwi57]

10:48 PM on 05/28/2012

I keep hearing about how "rednecks" tar everyone they don't like with the same brush.

Evidently "pink-necks" do the same thing.

Funny, that.

[rich3324]

11:14 PM on 05/28/2012

Look up the foundations of these two religions

[loudpipes]

06:39 AM on 05/29/2012

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/05/29/essay-about-prejudice-academe-against-mormons

[rich3324]

10:58 AM on 05/29/2012

The Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as "reformed Egyptian" engraved on golden plates. Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel,[4] revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.

One belief of Scientology is that a human is an immortal alien, i.e. extraterrestrial, spiritual being, termed a thetan, that is trapped on Earth in a physical body. Hubbard described these "thetans" in a "Space Opera" cosmogony. The thetan has had innumerable past lives and it is accepted in Scientology that lives preceding the thetan's arrival on Earth lived in extraterrestrial cultures. Descriptions of these space opera incidents are seen as true events by Scientologists.[

[Kiwi57]

08:53 PM on 05/29/2012

Thank you, loudpipes. That is a very important and thought-provoking article. F&F.

[That One]

11:39 AM on 05/28/2012

Go Vermont! Lowest concentration of Morons!

[Kiwi57]

05:20 PM on 05/28/2012

@That One:
"Go Vermont! Lowest concentration of Morons!"

You don't live there, I take it?

[KaAp]

09:16 PM on 05/28/2012

@Kiwi57: And I take it that you do not live there either.

[tagbs]

08:56 AM on 05/29/2012

LOL But in that poll Vermont come in #35 lowest of the states, NJ is #50 :) But still I am very proud of Vermont #35, is fantastic! I was also very proud to read last week that Vermont was the first state to ban fracking! Vermont Rocks! now if only the other states would follow.

[ManforFreedom]

02:29 PM on 05/29/2012

I hope you ride a bicycle or walk every where you go, so your beliefs aren't hypocritical.

[Klad InVermont]

05:01 PM on 05/27/2012

There are Mormons here in VT, really? Where?

[twilightkiwifan]

06:24 PM on 05/27/2012

I traveled all the way from New Zealand to your beautiful state and would you believe, I did find some Mormons there. Not many, granted, but awesome Mormons there, as they are around the globe, nevertheless. Go meet them on Sunday, 10am @ 113 LDS Ln, SOUTH ROYALTON, VERMONT, 05068. There we go. You asked, I've answered.

[magic underwear]

01:04 PM on 05/28/2012

And if you join the church you get to wear these (pictured)oh and you also get to pay them 10% of your income every month for the rest of your life.How can you possibly beat that!!!

[Norcal2]

09:07 AM on 05/29/2012

Brainwashing center...must have a high water bill!

[Norcal2]

09:08 AM on 05/29/2012

They try to hide! Being public exposes them for what they really are indeed!

[Dianne Czaja Keesler]

03:01 AM on 12/14/2012

Catholics use to hide because they would be killed! I guess they forgot how to be tolerant themselves.

[Mark Lawrence]

04:29 PM on 05/27/2012

The Mormon Church grossly overstates its membership statistics. I live in Utah, they claim me and my entire family on their records. Of 20 in my extended family 1 considers himself LDS. Their claims in Utah are way over stated.

[twilightkiwifan]

05:45 PM on 05/27/2012

If you have not had your records removed, then of course your name will remain on the records, like any place else. If I were married and didn't get divorced, of course my status will still be married. So what are you saying? Is it the church's job to go search for people who just leave an area or say they don't want to be baptized anymore and do nothing to formalize it? I would think it would be YOUR responsibility to do that, not the church's. Go figure! The church membership is made up of those who have been christened in the church or baptized. No one has been forced to do either. As in the case of babies being 'blessed', their parents or legal guardians CHOSE to have them blessed. No one forced them. Same with baptisms. NO ONE is forced to be a member of the church. If you no longer choose to be a member, go do what is required and I know you won't be included in any future statistic. Get over yourself!

[magic underwear]

02:46 PM on 05/28/2012

Like an 8 year old is going to tell their mormon Parents that they think mormonism is a scam and they do not want to be baptized.Get over yourself,8 year olds do not "choose" to get baptized,their Parents choose for them.

[JustLeftOfRight]

02:00 AM on 05/29/2012

Yea, well they certainly seem to be forcing souls into being baptized posthumously, don't they? Abhorrent practice, abhorrent religion.

[Willow712]

11:08 PM on 05/28/2012

If you've ever noticed how many people are sitting in cafes out near the highways in Utah on a Sunday morning? And it used to be that one could smoke in cafes there. And the cafes were so filled with coffee drinking smokers, that you could barely make your way to your booth.